From Blue Grass, Red State:
The AP pieced the story together before promptly burying it.
It’s been on Fox News television briefly, and was mentioned in the Washington Post and L.A. Times.  That’s it, and I’m sure it was hidden in all those newspapers.
Here’s the media bias story, thanks to Newsbusters:
“A high-level adviser for Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Cali) was charged Wednesday with receiving and distributing child pornography.
Although Jeff Rosato was arrested and fired last Friday, this story has garnered very little attention from the mainstream press.”
“Do you think the media would have been equally disinterested if he worked for a Republican?”
True, true.  And here’s the part about the total negligence of the San Francisco Chronicle:
“Most curious, Boxer’s hometown paper the San Francisco Chronicle (she lives in Marin County just across the Golden Gate Bridge) felt this matter wasn’t important enough to share with her most proximate constituents.”
Liberal media bias? What liberal media bias?
Seems, though, that it’s on SFGate (h/t Snuffles)
As the great one would say…
Norton, what a revoltin’ development…
You can be certain that it would have been all over the MSM had it been a Republican aide…
But I mean, you’ve no doubt heard Chris Tingle’s proclamation of late; It’s reporters job to make O! successful, because the country really needs a successful Presidency right now…
And, I suppose that Californians need for Ms. Boxer to have a successful Senator-ship also…
Of course, there is always the outside chance that this advisor is gay…Which would mean that there is no new bias here; the MSM is simply following it’s rules against bigoted hate speech…
Tolerance!, Unity!, Diversity!, Fairness!, Transparency!, Truth!, Honor!, Ethics!, Integrity!
I guess it’s just another sign of the times; Diogenes, just go ahead and put that lamp out brother…
O!
Isn’t that the second one for Sen. Boxer?
The male advisor was looking at young boy pron.
But, of course, that makes him a pedophile and not gay. Reporting the fact, though may be confusing to those stupid Mormons.
So this story in the San Francisco Chronicle about Barbara Boxer’s aid getting arrested for child porn is imaginary?
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/11/14/BA5J143VAU.DTL&type=politics
Or is Newsbusters still as lame a source as ever?
This article appeared on page B – 6 of the San Francisco Chronicle
snuffles is right. The MSM is completely ALL OVER this story.
STFU, sniffles/alphie.
You guys need to get a grip. Page 6! You act as if it’s below the comics section or something. Beside, I bet this advisor was a good guy …
A simple tip for the brave culture warriors of the right:
Broad accusations of left wing “bias” in the “MSM” are always winners, they can’t be proven/disproven.
But if you’re going to accuse a specific “MSM” news outlet of not running a story because of this imaginary bias, you might want to check if they actually ran the story or not.
Hi Dan,
Truth is…
If these guys begin to tell the truth, their political patrons will lose elections. And they all know this.
Pick any contention that compels the Democrat(ic) Party, from Global Warming to “Fair” Trade to Bush’s “Plastic Turkey,” and it is underwritten by a lie.
When a governing majority discovers that its list of projects that require media “Ass-Covering” exceeds its list of recorded, positive accomplishments, the governing system achieves a dangerous equilibrium.
And its media must step in.
As Chris Mathews has already revealed, it is now the media’s job to enlarge and maintain this new equilibrium’s virtual range of motion, lest Obama’s administration not “succeed.” So, that the SF Chronicle has laundered Barbara Boxer’s mien for her, once again, is no surprise. The rag’s just doin’ its job.
Media bias? Why “that’s preposterous!”
Broad accusations of left wing “bias†in the “MSM†are always winners, they can’t be proven/
The fuck they cannot be proven. That asshats like you and Olberfuckface choose to ignore the inherent bias in the media does not mean it does not exist.
As Chris Mathews has already revealed, it is now the media’s job to enlarge and maintain this new equilibrium’s virtual range of motion, lest Obama’s administration not “succeed.â€Â
They spent 7 1/2 years tearing down President Bush, and now it is their job to cheerlead their chosen candidate on to success.
Heh, SNUFFLES SAYS THERE IS NO BIAS PEOPLE, GO BACK TO YOUR HUTS.
JD wrote:
“They spent 7 1/2 years tearing down President Bush, and now it is their job to cheerlead their chosen candidate on to success.”
To which I say, this has been a most terrible thing to watch, as it required that full-grown adults with media co’s murder both truth AND reason to succeed.
And they got paid millions to do it!
I’m particulary fearful of the effect this will have on generations of little people. When adults act-out in this way in the public-square and they get away with (or, in fact, make millions of dollars from) it, they are caught modeling an ethic to children that is in direct conflict with the mores and principals that most Americans strive to teach their children every day.
Surely, media teaching our kids to lie for big money is a chicken that will come home to roost down the road. How can it not?
“burying it” = Placing the story in a lesser-viewed section of the newspaper, where fewer will notice it.
Which is exactly what the Chronicle, as you demonstrated, did.
Before you throw out your “Gotcha” card, snuffs, make sure that it actually helps, rather than hinders, your own argument.
Steveaz. Hate to inform you that chicken will NOT come home to roost There really is no chicken, and no home upon which to roost, and no road, for that matter.
Up is down and down is up and that’s what our kids will know.
This article appeared on page B – 6 of the San Francisco Chronicle
Clearly, this is a prominent location in the paper. The above quote is taken from the very last line of the link that sniffles/alphie supplied.
Isn’t that the second one for Sen. Boxer?
I think so. I think it was a former aide of Boxer’s who went to work for a congress critter from Washington state.
Still, in a town where your emergency room is servicing a dude who is bleeding out after being fucked by a horse, a Barbara Streisand impersonator in need of surgery because the iguana he inserted into his rectum has broken the sphincter wall, or the man dressed as a showgirl who didn’t check the expiration date on the big piece of fetish-poop he ate, page 6 could conceivably be a bump up for the Boxer/child porn story.
Don’t give sniffbutt the satisfaction of a response to its comment. As difficult as it is at times, it’s better not to acknowledge its existence. There’s no payoff anyway, unless you consider re-reading mendoucheous memes a payoff. Obama is a muslim terrorist!!!
Anybody who uses the word mendoucheous is a good person. It is a fun word to google.
Thanks JD, and from now on, if I hear anything negative about President Bush, Gov. Palin, et al., I’m going to immediately start commenting on upcoming gun shows and the weapons I’d like to acquire, because judging on the comments left at Hot Air, lefties hate that subject.
Oh yeah, I’m now adopting the use of “leftrhoid” when referring to any dhimm, progg or liberal.
Snuffles’ link gives me pause. Thanks, S. I was pretty quick to jump in with both feet.
And I think that Snuffles, too, will admit that Newsbuster’s charge of bias still has much standing if FOX, SFGate, CNN, MSNBC, and the NYT aren’t still talking about Boxer’s pervert next Friday.
Stayin’ tuned.
I think the idiosyncrasies of the liberal mind have led them to believe that the current state of media, [including movies, newspapers, cable news, tv, etc] is a de facto representation of reality. We on the right sort of commiserate the state of media, it’s inherent unreliability for anything other than cartoons or Kafka-esque doublespeak; we don’t have what I guess you might call a unified field theory. It was nary 3 years ago when the left saw the rise of fascism in the perceived pro-Iraq war bias; books were written, hysterical diatribes screeched. Now, crickets in the face of bias in the opposite direction. Now you’d probably be correct in stating the obvious, i.e. partisanship determines perception, but there’s some form of conditional resentment going on here, which is to say that the left resents an institution until it completely capitulates to their pov. The 5 year transition from media hating to media apologists is downright Orwellian.
I’m flirting with this idea the leader of Greenpeace said the other day, “The era of American history pre-Obama was dark and McCarthyite,” or some such. Hate America yesterday, Love it today mentality. This new camelot of course will only last until the next Republican president is elected.
staevez – Your instincts were right. If this was a senior aide to Republican Senator, this would be Page 1 above the fold in every major daily fishwrap, and ABC, CBS, NBC, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, and NPR would run it non-stop. That the Chronicle ran it on B6 actually proves your instincts right.
“I’m flirting with this idea the leader of Greenpeace said the other day, “The era of American history pre-Obama was dark and McCarthyite,†or some such. Hate America yesterday, Love it today mentality. This new camelot of course will only last until the next Republican president is elected.”
But of course. The hypocricy of the left is amazing. They scream, “Don’t question our patriotism” all the while hating this country (oh, they’ll say they hate Bush which is just as juvenile), but the moment one of their guys is elected. A new era of greatness has come. America is great again. Assholes, America is always great, even with the president elect ready to take “rule”.
I bet getting a rectum wall busted by an Iguana would hurt.
Iguana hold your hand.
Had a friend in high school in Montgomery, AL. He told me, later confirmed, that his mother was an ER nurse in Montgomery in 1970. Into her ER one night staggered a gentleman whose gay lover was responsible for the feebly twitching squirrel tail hanging out of his butt….. apparently in revenge for cheating….